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Playing with Fire: The Looming War with China over Taiwan (Praeger Security International)

March 22, 2015

One of the most pressing issues for China—and the world at large—is the continuing presence of an independence-minded Taiwan off China’s southern coast. Recent modernization efforts within the Chinese military and tough remarks by Chinese officials have alarmed many in Washington, and caused others to question America’s commitments in the region.Copper details events of recent […]
The Security Implications of the New Taiwan (Adelphi series)

March 22, 2015

How can fresh conflict between China and Taiwan be avoided? This paper argues that unless the key players – Taiwan, China and the US – accept the existence of a new and increasingly democratic Taiwan, the conflict across the Taiwan Straits will remain one of the most contentious and dangerous in East Asia. Sale Price:buy at discount […]
Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries (Routledge Research on Taiwan Series)

March 22, 2015

To date, there is but a handful of articles on documentary films from Taiwan. This volume seeks to remedy the paucity in this area of research and conduct a systematic analysis of the genre. Each contributor to the volume investigates the various aspects of documentary by focusing on one or two specific films that document […]
Remembering China from Taiwan: Divided Families and Bittersweet Reunions After the Chinese Civil War

March 22, 2015

At the close of the Chinese Civil War, two million Chinese fled from the victorious communist army under Mao Zedong. They fled across a long ocean strait to the island of Taiwan where they waited for almost fifty years, dreaming of their lost homes and relatives left behind, aging and living out their lives as […]
Washington’s Taiwan Dilemma, 1949-1950: From Abandonment to Salvation

March 22, 2015

The declaration of the People’s Republic of China in October 1949 presented American foreign policy officials with two dilemmas: How to deal with the communist government on the mainland and what to do about Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist regime on Taiwan. By 1950, these questions were pressing hard upon U.S. civilian and military planners and policy […]
Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film (Global Chinese Culture)

March 22, 2015

In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after two years, accusations of corruption and a failing economy sparked a local protest that was brutally quashed by the Kuomintang government. The February Twenty-Eighth (or 2/28) Incident led to four decades of martial law that became known as the […]
Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line

March 22, 2015

During the height of the Cold War in the 1950s the small island of Quemoy in the Taiwan Strait was the front line in the military standoff between Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China and Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic. Local society and culture were dramatically transformed. Michael Szonyi uses oral history, official documents, and dissident writings […]
Politicized Society: The Long Shadow of Taiwan’s One-party Legacy (Governance in Asia)

March 22, 2015

Taiwan’s gradual democratization has been celebrated as one of the most successful cases of political transformation, due to an initially smooth political transition from one-party authoritarianism to multi-party politics. Yet, this transition is incomplete and, especially since 2000 when the first non-Kuomintang president was elected, Taiwan has seen an intense and persistent politicization of its […]
Taiwanese Identity in the 21st Century: Domestic, Regional and Global Perspectives (Routledge Research on Taiwan Series)

March 22, 2015

As we look to enter the second decade of the 21st century, Taiwan’s quest for identity remains the most contentious issue in the domestic arena of Taiwanese politics. From here, it spills over into the cross-Strait relationship and impacts on regional and global security. Whether Taiwan is a nation state or whether Taiwan has any […]
Sailing to Formosa: A Poetic Companion to Taiwan

March 22, 2015

This bilingual anthology of modern Chinese poetry from and about Taiwan is arranged in thematic sections that present contrasting views of life in Taiwan. The island’s dramatic history has given modern Taiwan literature a wealth of conflicting cultural, linguistic, and ideological legacies that continue to shape it. Modern Taiwan poetry draws on the developing modernism […]

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